Media Kit

About Dave Fox

Dave Fox in Ho Chi Minh City

Dave Fox is a best-selling humor and travel author, a lively public speaker and storyteller, a writing coach with more than two decades of experience, and a Transformation Academy certified life coach. Originally from the United States, he has traveled in nearly 60 countries. He has lived in England, Turkey, Norway, and Singapore. He is currently based in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.

The History Channel program, “Weird U.S.,” profiled Dave in its 2005 Christmas episode, “It’s a Wonderful Time to be Weird,” as a proud Norwegian-American who embraces his right to not eat lutefisk. He has also been an opening speaker for Princess Märtha Louise of Norway. In 2010, Dave was the featured travel expert on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s national New Year’s Eve radio broadcast. He has been a guest on the “Travels with Rick Steves” program on National Public Radio in the United States, and Channel NewsAsia’s morning TV news program, “First Look Asia.”

Dave also hosts the Globejotting Travel Show on Expat Radio, an English-language Internet radio station based in France.

From 1995 to 2011, Dave was based in Seattle and spent roughly three months each year in Europe guiding tours for Rick Steves‘ travel company. He has also guided humor-driven history tours for Bill Speidell’s Underground Tour in Seattle, worked as a guest lecturer for Holland America Cruises, and organized small-group travel writing workshops in Vietnam and Botswana.

In July, 2011, Dave moved to Singapore with his wife, Kattina, who was working at the Singapore American School as a middle school science teacher. They relocated to Ho Chi Minh City in 2015 after Kattina was offered a position at Saigon South International School. Throughout this time, Dave has worked as a freelance travel and humor writer. He also teaches a series of online writing workshops and offers one-on-one writer coaching via Skype.

On a happier note, Dave’s hobbies include learning languages, playing the violin, getting lost in foreign places (hence the book title) and beer tasting. He speaks fluent Norwegian, decent conversational French, and is currently learning Vietnamese. He plays the fiddle in Gwennili, a Breizh (Breton / French Celtic) folk group based in Ho Chi Minh City.

Dave gives engaging interviews. He is happy to share his knowledge about travel and writing with the media and enjoys speaking to groups of five or 500.

Freelance Publications

Dave has contributed to books by Lonely Planet and Rick Steves, and Moon Handbooks, as well as the Living in Singapore guidebook, the Travelers’ Tales series, Italy from a Backpack, and the Mug of Woe humorseries.

His newspaper credits include articles in the Straits Times (Singapore), the Singapore American Newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Portland Oregonian, Dallas Morning News, and Wisconsin State Journal.

You may also be interested in

Free Globejotting Newsletter

Stay up to date on the latest travel tales, writing tips, and more! Sign up for the free Globejotting Newsletter.

(Your e-mail address will absolutely never be shared, sold, or traded for camels.)

Email address:

Writing and Life Coaching

Dave Fox is a writing coach with more than two decades of experience, and a Transformation Academy certified life coach.

If you’ve got big writing goals, dreams you want to achieve but you’re not sure how to get there, or if you’re struggling with something and you need help turning things around, Dave can help you create a path to more fulfilling and authentic life.